The great Spellstorm

The Great Spellstorm was an event that plagued the entire fractured realms, but was especially damaging in the lands of the Alkeemian Empire. The Great Spellstorm marked the final and complete end to the Alkeemian empire, which was already greatly weakened by the War of the Fallen Empire. Indeed, it was the final battle of the war where the Spellstorm formed, caused by the powerful and unstable spells that each faction had cast. However, the Spellstorm became an event independent of the spells that caused it, drawing power from the weave of magic that sustained the storm for decades. The Storm spread outward, slowly bringing the world to fall into chaos. Many of the effects of the Spellstorm remain unknown, as there were few remaining groups to record its effects. The spellstorm leveled the remnants of the Alkeemian empire, and wrought apocalyptic damage to other civilizations. Surface civilizations did not survive the Spellstorm. If underground civilizations survived, then they retreated into the ground and where never seen again. It is said that the world then slept, as the civilizations took eons to recover. Civilizations did recover, and while their power has grown substantially, they still are known to recover ancient an unfathomable artifacts from time to time.

Scholars surmise that the Spellstorm was characterized by echos of spells cast during the war, and by spells having magnified unstable effects. Some accounts additionally suggest that the very nature of time was changed by the Spellstorm, and that the very shape of the world was changed by the catastrophe. There seems to be some evidence these theories, as archeological digs and pre-storm records seem to suggest the world was more expansive Before The Storm.

Manifestation

The Spellstorm is said to have been characterized by multicolored clouds and lightning, by spirits of the fallen flowing with the wind, and by a tendency for spells and magical effects to act in strange and often unintelligible ways.

Localization

While the effects of the Spellstorm effected the entire surface world, they were most damaging and potent in the lands previously held by the Alkeemian empire.

Type

Metaphysical, Arcane